Bowhead (IMAGE)

Wildlife Conservation Society

Bowhead

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A newly published study by the Wildlife Conservation Society, the American Museum of Natural History, and other groups represents the first range-wide genetic analysis, using both modern-day tissue samples and historical artifacts of the bowhead whale, a species at home among the ice floes of the Arctic. This individual was photographed off Point Barrow, Alaska.

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Brenda K. Rone, NOAA/AFSC/NMML, Permit No. 782-1719 & 14245.

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